Published: December 17, 2025 at 12:30 pm
An AI platform aimed at modernising how companies and law firms capture and protect patents has raised a $20 million (£15m) Series A round led by Atomico, with Index Ventures doubling down and Norrsken VC and Daphni also participating.
Ankar AI said it will use the funding to grow its team and expand further into the US, taking total funding to $24m.
The London-based business is positioning itself as an “operating system” for patents, arguing that while AI can help teams assess novelty, draft claims and evaluate prior art faster than ever, adoption has been held back by fragmented tools and a lack of trust in how AI is used in sensitive workflows.
Co-founders Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi previously built software at Palantir in Europe and the US, which the company says has shaped its approach to secure patent retrieval, claim-level reasoning, LLM governance and AI safety inside enterprise-controlled environments.